Before you say, “Homework, who needs it?” think again. You need it, my friend. It’s not just there to make your life miserable. Here are a few good reasons for doing homework: It helps you practice skills that you haven’t fully learned yet. And it helps you review skills that you have learned. It gives [...]

The most striking trend regarding homework in the past two decades is the tendency to pile more & more of it on younger & younger children. Even school districts that had an unofficial custom not so many years ago of waiting until the third grade before assigning it have abandoned that restraint. Today it is [...]

After spending most of the day in school, children are typically given additional assignments to be completed at home. Thi is a rather curious fact when you stop to think about it, but not as curious as the fact that few people ever stop to think about it. It’s worth asking not only whether there [...]